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Yilong Qin

3 accepted papers

2024

Promises and Pitfalls of Generative Masked Language Modeling: Theoretical Framework and Practical Guidelines

ICML 2024poster

Autoregressive language models are the currently dominant paradigm for text generation, however they have some fundamental limitations that cannot be remedied by scale---for example inherently sequential and unidirectional generation. While alternate classes of models have been explored, we have lim…

2023

Characterizing Out-of-Distribution Error via Optimal Transport

NeurIPS 2023poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models, so methods of predicting a model's performance on OOD data without labels are important for machine learning safety. While a number of methods have been proposed by prior work, they often underestimate the a…

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2021

Powering Comparative Classification with Sentiment Analysis via Domain Adaptive Knowledge Transfer

EMNLP 2021main

We study Comparative Preference Classification (CPC) which aims at predicting whether a preference comparison exists between two entities in a given sentence and, if so, which entity is preferred over the other. High-quality CPC models can significantly benefit applications such as comparative quest…